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Recent content by OldWoodsman

  1. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    Using Prasangila Madhyamika as my main reference point, regardless of my current experiences, it's watertight and irrefutable. Essentially all phenomena lack any inherent existence. That's not to say things don't exist, they just don't exist in the way that they appear. All phenomena seem to...
  2. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    I know, and I appreciate that - it's just the antithesis of my established philosophical base as to be almost confusing. There's an old Zen saying "After Enlightenment, the dishes..." If you understand that, then you might understand how its feeling. I also recall a lecturer at my first...
  3. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    Of course, I have personal agency. My issue is I feel like I am being driven by something that is instinctively outside of myself. I simply don't recognise it other than being able to acknowledge that its there. Like a colour I have not ever seen before.
  4. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    Thats really helpful, thanks - I like your mind!! :)
  5. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    I struggle with the 'Free Will' stance. If my child was about to burn themselves would I stand back and say "...not going to intervene, they have free will..." - what sort of a father would I be then???
  6. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    Do I 'own' my soul? If so, who is it that is the possessor of the soul?
  7. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    The same way as if I bring fuel, oxygen and heat I get fire....nothing supernatural there.
  8. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    How did God create me....was I not created by my parents? <sorry, feels like a cumbersome question>!
  9. OldWoodsman

    Can you help with this quandary?

    Hello, I wonder if you might help me work out this for me? A little background first, so bear with me as its relevant. Hugely influenced by Buddhism for many years, I mean decades - I had an experience that dictated I started to develop a faith in Christ. I won't go into the details, but it...